Dr. Pratima Dave Shastri did MSW, and then didM.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from VikramUniversity, Ujjain, M.P. She did PGCTE and PGDTE fromCentral Institute of English and Foreign Language, Hyderabad. She has been teachin English for past ten years to the undergraduate and post-graduate students. She is working in the Department of Language Teaching, Central of Education, SNDT University, Mumbai.